How Important Is It to Speak Spanish at Home?

How important is speaking Spanish to you? If you won't date a Latino, how important is it for him to learn Spanish? Also, will you make sure your children are bilingual too?

A new study shows even more benefits to being bilingual. In fact, bilingual babies know their grammar by 7 months. Is that amazingly insane, or what? Babies also learn early on how to keep the two languages separate.

Infants in bilingual environments use pitch and duration cues to discriminate between languages with opposite word orders. "By as early as seven months, babies are sensitive to these differences and use these as cues to tell the languages apart," says UBC psychologist Janet Werker, co-author of the study.